The memes seem to have originated in the comedic Facebook group “Bernie Sanders Dank Memes Stash,” where people post humorous images featuring the socialist presidential candidate, according to the Telegraph.

Sanders outpolled Clinton by about 20 percent in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.

Arika Stovall believes that divine interaction saved her and her boyfriend when his Toyota Tundra crashed head on into a bridge pillar at 85 mph.

But it’s not the Tennessee couple’s amazing survival that has touched thousands of social media users — it’s a photo posted of them gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes after they were treated for their injuries. Despite their harrowing experience, the pair are smiling.

The photo was taken by a close friend of the couple at Vanderbilt University Medical Center the moment the two laid eyes on each other hours after the accident, according to KTLA 5.

Stovall, a Lipscomb University student, and her boyfriend, Hunter Hanks, both 21, were returning to Nashville from Jacksonville, Fla., on New Year’s Day when their pickup drifted off Interstate 24 and hit the bridge support near Murfreesboro.

They aren’t sure what caused the truck to veer off the highway, but Stovall said it was only three seconds before the truck plowed into the concrete slab.

Miraculously, neither was seriously hurt even though the pickup “looks like it’s been through a tree grinder,” Stovall says. She attributes their survival to the hand of God and Hanks’ quick reflexes.

“The way God helped Hunter to respond exactly the way he did behind the wheel, spinning the truck exactly where it should have to be able to smash into the (pillar) directly in the middle of me and Hunter so we were both untouched …that doesn’t just happen,” wrote Stovall. “God doesn’t throw protection around like that for no reason. He does it because he’s not finished with us.”

Stovall also said the crash flipped open Hanks’ Bible to a page “marked with Scripture telling us not (to) be afraid; Jesus is with us.”

She told News Channel 5 that just as the crash made her faith stronger, so has the viral photo affected the lives of others around the globe.

“We’ve gotten hundreds of messages just telling us that our story brought them out of a dark place in their life and changed their life,” Stovall said about the photo.

Florida police busted a man who accidentally texted a police narcotics captain while trying to arrange a drug deal.

William Lamberson, of Port St. Lucie, sent messages seeking a “hook up” to the captain of the Martin County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit last month, thinking the cop was a drug dealer.

“Its will remember we met at 7-11,” the criminal mastermind wrote.

The captain, at first confused by the message, played along, and sure enough, his new phone friend texted some thoughts that he probably regrets sharing with a narc.

Lamberson apparently got the captain’s number through a misdial as the two had not previously met, public information officer Christine Weiss told the New York Daily News.

Eventually a cocaine transaction was set up, but at the meeting where Lamberson was allegedly expecting to sell 1.2 ounces of coke for $160, he was instead greeted by narcotics detectives who promptly arrested him, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Facebook page.

He was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.

A 23-year-old Montana man sought for theft and forgery was arrested after he “liked” his own online wanted poster on the Cascade County Crime Stoppers Facebook page.

Levi Charles Reardon, who was featured on the page as an April “most wanted” suspect, was arrested Friday, according to police records. He made his initial court appearance earlier this week.

He faces felony charges for allegedly forging checks in a case involving the theft of a wallet and personal checks. Police previously questioned him after a check made out to him was found to be a forgery, according to the Great Falls Tribune.

When 90-year-old Zimbabwean President and noted homophobe Robert Mugabe slipped and fell on the red carpet Wednesday in Harare, his handlers immediately demanded photographers delete their shots of the leader’s embarrassing tumble.

At least one refused, leading to the widespread publication of the above photo. Before long, memes were popping up all over social media.

Perhaps one of the reasons Photoshoppers so gleefully took to the task of meming Mugabe was his hateful comments about Africa’s gay community.

In the past, Mugabe has called gay people “worse than pigs and dogs,” and threatened to have them beheaded.

“This thing (homosexuality) seeks to destroy our lineage by saying John and John should wed, Maria and Maria should wed. Imagine this son born out of an African father, (U.S. President Barrack) Obama says if you want aid, you should accept the homosexuality practice. Aah, we will never do that.”

The mystery man in orange had a great view of Hunter Pence’s first inning home run.

You couldn’t miss him — the middle-aged gentleman in Marlins orange against a sea of royal blue in one of the priciest seats at Kauffman Stadium.

His name is Laurence Leavy. He’s a 58-year-old Miami lawyer and huge baseball fan who goes by Marlins_Man on Twitter. So huge, in fact, that he reportedly paid $8,000 to watch two teams that aren’t the Marlins play in the World Series.

But his sartorial splendor didn’t sit well with the Royals front office, which apparently hates Miami orange as much as San Francisco orange. According to the Miami Herald, the Royals offered him a private suite if he moved or World Series goodies if he shed the offending jersey.

Leavy didn’t budge. “The owner of the Royals was extremely upset that I was there,” he told the Herald.

The Herald asked Leavy about his love for big-time sports events: “By his count, he’s gone to 27 Super Bowls, more than 200 NBA playoff games, and at least 85 World Series games, and many Triple Crown horse races.”

That makes him sort of a modern-day Rollen Stewart, the born-again fan who showed up at countless major sports events in the ’70s and ’80s wearing a rainbow-colored afro-style wig and holding up signs reading “John 3:16.” Only Leavy gets even better seats than Rainbow Man did.

Eagle-eyed fans may have noticed that Marlins_Man had celebrity company in the front row behind the plate. Two seats away was rapper Tech N9ne, a K.C. native and big Royals fan. Apparently no one objected to his wearing black instead of blue.

Whether Daniel Kowalski is guilty of operating a methamphetamine lab or not, it takes chutzpah to show up for his police booking photos in a “Los Pollos Hermanos” t-shirt.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office says Kowalski, 21, was cooking meth in his Chicago-area home. He’s charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of methamphetamine manufacturing materials and possession of materials needed to produce methamphetamine.

NBC Chicago reported that while the lab was not active, officers found glass beakers, burners, chemicals and instructional materials for making controlled substances. In addition, 12 jars of psilocybin mushrooms were also seized.

It was the second time in less than a year a meth lab was found in his home, police said.

Bunnies of Okunoshima Island

At first glance, a toxic waste site would seem an unusual tourist destination.

But it’s not the ruins of old World War II forts and chemical factories that are drawing visitors to Japan’s Okunoshima Island. It’s the fluffy bunnies.

Hundreds of them. And the best thing is, they swarm you like the rats to the Pied Piper.

During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army used the island land to produce six kilotons of mustard gas. The island was so secret that it was erased from maps, local residents were warned to stay away and potential employees were kept in the dark about the product that was being manufactured. Even today, the island’s groundwater remains unsafe to drink.

Did the weapons of mass destruction create a race of mutant bunnies? Probably not.

Apparently rabbits were used as gas test subjects; 200 of the poor things were reportedly euthanized by the Americans during the Occupation.

Perhaps some escaped that fate or maybe a few bunnies were introduced afterwards. With no predators around and rabbits being rabbits, it’s not hard to see how bunnies could become the dominant critter on a 700,000 square-meter island.

Unlike wildlife preserves, Okunoshima Island encourages its tourists to feed the animals. In return, you’re likely to get a soft, furry group hug.

Guess this qualifies as streaming video. What’s worse, he didn’t even wash his hands.

KERMIT, W.Va. (AP) — Health officials have temporarily shut down a southern West Virginia pizza restaurant after a district manager was caught on surveillance video urinating into a sink.

Local media reported that the Mingo County health department ordered the Pizza Hut in Kermit, about 85 miles southwest of Charleston, to shut down.

Pizza Hut Corp. released a statement saying it was “embarrassed” by the manager’s actions. The company says it has “zero tolerance” for violations of its operating standards. The employee was fired. His name was not released.

Pizza Hut says the incident occurred after business hours.

County health official Brett Vance says the restaurant is closed until it is thoroughly cleaned and there are reassurances of safeguards in place.

A black bear broke into – that’s right, into (not out of) – the zoo in Knoxville, Tenn.

Actually, it’s not so surprising.

Think of the amenities – two free meals a day, excellent health plan with no veterinarian copay, mating generally encouraged, unlimited use of the bears-only swimming pool. Plus, “our Black Bear Falls is one of the top habitats in the country,” said Knoxville Zoo Executive Director Lisa New.

Yes, to bears, the Knoxville Zoo is the equivalent of a convertible parked at Yosemite with an open jar of peanut butter in the front seat. It’s asking to be broken into.

According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, a zoo ranger spotted the young, 150-pound bruin climbing over a 10-foot chain-link and barbed-wire fence on the zoo’s perimeter about midnight Monday.

Presumably following the standard escaped-animal procedure in reverse, the ranger called other rangers and zoo staff. A check of the bear habitat ensued. All four resident bears were present and accounted for.

Meanwhile, the intruder apparently slipped out of the ranger’s sight. Police and wildlife officers were alerted. Rangers and staff began a search of the zoo’s 53 acres.

Nothing. No sign of the bear was found. It must have scaled the zoo’s fence again and disappeared without anyone noticing, zoo staffers speculated.

The search was called off and the zoo grounds declared bear-free, with the exception of those safely ensconced behind the walls of Black Bear Falls.

The idea was for a pump in his scrotum to draw fluid from a reservoir inserted under his stomach wall, inflating cylinders inside the shaft.

Metzgar, who says his erectile dysfunction is a result of longtime diabetes, hoped the prosthetic would improve his sex life with his wife, Donna.

The device half-worked: He achieved an erection, but it wouldn’t go away when it was supposed to.

Such a condition obviously can result in uncomfortable and embarrassing situations.

Metzgar couldn’t ride his motorcycle. Going outside in the morning to pick up the newspaper risked treating the neighbors to an awkward display. He was forced to wear baggy pants and long shirts to camouflage his tumescence.

Metzgar’s urologist, Dr. Thomas J. Desperito, denied responsibility. His attorneys argued Metzgar should have known something was wrong after the surgery, when, according to the patient, his scrotum swelled to the size of a volleyball.

Instead he did nothing for four months. When he finally did come in, in April 2010, complaining of the constant erection and an infection, he was told to have the device removed, Desperito’s attorneys say.

Metzgar, who lost his health insurance in 2009 after the surgery, says he didn’t have the money to pay for the removal operation.

But he did get the prosthetic taken out four months later by another doctor after the tubing punctured his scrotum.

He claims scar tissue from the initial surgery has reduced the size of his penis by 50 percent and caused him to lose sensation.

When going to court, any father fighting for visitation rights to his child wants to make a good impression.

So when Heath Campbell entered a closed family court hearing in Flemington, N.J., he was snappily dressed – in Nazi dress grays.

They go well with his postage-stamp mustache and his swastika neck tattoo.

Campbell and his now-estranged wife, Deborah, attracted national attention in 2009 when a shop refused to decorate a cake with the name of his son, Adolf Hitler Campbell.

Not long after, Adolf and two siblings were taken into state custody, allegedly not because of their names but because of domestic abuse, according to newjersey.com. Campbell, 40 vehemently denies mistreating his kids.

“I’ve never abused my children. I only name my children.

“What they’re saying is that because of my beliefs, [because] I’m a Nazi, us people don’t have any constitutional rights to fight for our children.”

The hearing concerned a fourth child, Heinrich Hons, who went into state care within hours of his birth in November 2011. Campbell is fighting to have the boy returned to him.

Does he think dressing like a Reichsfuehrer will help his case?

“If they’re good judges and they’re good people, they’ll look within, not what’s on the outside.”

Martha Stewart, the arbiter of good taste and appropriate table settings, is looking for love, according to her new Match.com profile.

The profile “thegoodlonglife,” a divorced 71-year-old woman, declares, “Yes, it’s really me.” She describes herself as an “athletic and toned” exercise junkie, a “social drinker” and “very liberal.” She likes the symphony, opera, rap, and “House of Cards” and “Homeland” on TV.

Are you the man for Martha? Well, to qualify you need to be single, 5-foot-10 or taller, make at least $150,000 a year and have a graduate degree.

Martha’s not a cradle robber but apparently she prefers her men to be younger. She’s seeking someone in the 55-70 range.

And while not expressly stated, you really should know what kind of white wine complements coho salmon best. And where the dessert fork goes.

“When I saw the names of some of these (dodgeball) games, unfortunately guys, we live in a world where 20 babies were slaughtered, Windham School Board member Stephanie Wimmer said. “We need to take the violence out of our schools and not teach it.”

The board voted 4-1 to ban “human target games” for kindergarten through 12th grade at all schools. It cited a National Association for Sport and Physical Education study that called dodgeball inappropriate because “weaker” children are targeted more often and “being hit by a hard-thrown ball does not help kids develop confidence.”

The lone board dissenter Dennis Senibaldi, said, “It was offensive to even put a tragedy like Sandy Hook in the same realm as dodgeball. They’re not even in the same universe. They are billions of miles apart. They are not even comparable.”

For now, background checks are not required for purchasing a dodgeball in New Hampshire. “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” can still be rented from Netflix without a waiting period.

Meanwhile, despite its bad rep, dodgeball is still managing to proliferate in the other 49 states.

Police say Christopher Dorner – the former Los Angeles cop wanted in killing a couple over the weekend and firing on four officers early Thursday, killing one – implicated himself in the couple’s slayings in a multi-page “manifesto.” The statement, compiled by KTLA 5 in Los Angeles, contains threats against officers, disturbing language and content. The names of officers have been removed by KTLA 5.

From: Christopher Jordan Dorner /7648
To: America
Subj: Last resort
Regarding CF# 07-004281
I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and shocking actions in the last couple of days. You are saying to yourself that this is completely out of character of the man you knew who always wore a smile wherever he was seen. I know I will be vilified by the LAPD and the media. Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name. The department has not changed since the Rampart and Rodney King days. It has gotten worse. The consent decree should never have been lifted. The only thing that has evolved from the consent decree is those officers involved in the Rampart scandal and Rodney King incidents have since promoted to supervisor, commanders, and command staff, and executive positions.

The question is, what would you do to clear your name?

Name; A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to.
Name Synonyms; reputation, title, appellation, denomination, repute.

A name is more than just a noun, verb, or adjective. It’s your life, your legacy, your journey, sacrifices, and everything you’ve worked hard for every day of your life as and adolescent, young adult and adult. Don’t let anybody tarnish it when you know you’ve live up to your own set of ethics and personal ethos.

In 8/07 I reported an officer (Ofcr. XXXX/now a Sergeant), for kicking a suspect (excessive force) during a Use of Force while I was assigned as a patrol officer at LAPD’s Harbor Division. While cuffing the suspect, (XXXX), XXXX kicked the suspect twice in the chest and once in the face. The kick to the face left a visible injury on the left cheek below the eye. Unfortunately after reporting it to supervisors and investigated by PSB (internal affairs investigator Det. XXXX), nothing was done. I had broken their supposed “Blue Line”. Unfortunately, It’s not JUST US, it’s JUSTICE!!! In fact, 10 months later on 6/25/08, after already successfully completing probation, acquiring a basic Post Certificate, and Intermediate Post Certificate, I was relieved of duty by the LAPD while assigned to patrol at Southwest division. It is clear as day that the department retaliated toward me for reporting XXXX for kicking Mr. XXXX. The department stated that I had lied and made up the report that XXXX had kicked the suspect. I later went to a Board of Rights (department hearing for decision of continued employment) from 10/08 to 1/09. During this BOR hearing a video was played for the BOR panel where XXXX stated that he was indeed kicked by Officer XXXX (video sent to multiple news agencies). In addition to XXXX stating he was kicked, his father XXXX, also stated that his son had stated he was kicked by an officer when he was arrested after being released from custody. This was all presented for the department at the BOR hearing. They still found me guilty and terminated me. What they didn’t mention was that the BOR panel made up of Capt. XXXX, Capt. XXXX, and City Attorney XXXX had a significant problem from the time the board was assembled. Capt. XXXX was a personal friend of XXXX from when he was her supervisor at Harbor station. That is a clear conflict of interest and I made my argument for his removal early and was denied. The advocate for the LAPD BOR was Sgt. XXXX. XXXX also had a conflict of interest as she was XXXX friend and former partner from Harbor division where they both worked patrol together. I made my argument for her removal when I discovered her relation to XXXX and it was denied.

During the BOR, the department attempted to label me unsuccessfully as a bully. They stated that I had bullied a recruit, XXXX, in the academy when in reality and unfounded disposition from the official 1.28 formal complaint investigation found that I was the one who stood up for XXXX when other recruits sang nazi hitler youth songs about burning Jewish ghettos in WWII Germany where his father was a survivor of a concentration camp. How fucking dare you attempt to label me with such a nasty vile word. I ask that all earnest journalist investigating this story ask Ofcr. XXXX about the incident when Ofcr. XXXX began singing a nazi youth song about burning jewish ghettos.
The internal affairs investigation in the academy involving XXXX was spurned by a complaint that I had initiated toward two fellow recruit/offifcers. While assigned patrol footbeat in Hollywood Division, Officers XXXX and XXXX (both current LAPD officers) decided that they would voice their personal feelings about the black community. While traveling back to the station in a 12 passenger van I heard XXXX refer to another individual as a nigger. I wasn’t sure if I heard correctly as there were many conversations in the van that was compiled of at least 8 officers and he was sitting in the very rear and me in the very front. Even with the multiple conversations and ambient noise I heard Officer XXXX call an indivdual a nigger again. Now that I had confirmed it, I told XXXX not to use that word again. I explained that it was a well-known offensive word that should not be used by anyone. He replied, “I’ll say it when I want”. Officer XXXX, a friend of his, also stated that he would say nigger when he wanted. At that point I jumped over my front passenger seat and two other officers where I placed my hands around XXXXs’ neck and squeezed. I stated to XXXX, “Don’t fucking say that”. At that point there was pushing and shoving and we were separated by several other officers. What I should have done, was put a Winchester Ranger SXT 9mm 147 grain bullet in his skull and Officer XXXX’s skull. The Situation would have been resolved effective, immediately. The sad thing about this incident was that when Detective XXXX from internal affairs investigated this incident only (1) officer (unknown) in the van other than myself had statements constistent with what actually happened. The other six officers all stated they heard nothing and saw nothing. Shame on every one of you. Shame on Detective XXXX (same ethnicity as XXXX) for creating a separate 1.28 formal complaint against me (XXXX complaint) in retaliation for initiating the complaint against XXXX and XXXX. Don’t retaliate against honest officers for breaking your so-called blue line. I hope your son XXXX, who I knew, is a better officer than you, Detective XXXX. The saddest part of this ordeal was that Officer XXXX and XXXX were only given 22 day suspensions and are still LAPD officers to this day. That day, the LAPD stated that it is acceptable for fellow officers to call black officers niggers to their face and you will receive a slap on the wrist. Even sadder is that during that 22 day suspension XXXX and XXXX received is that the LAPPL (Los Angeles Police Protective League) paid the officers their salaries while they were suspended. When I took a two-day suspension for an accidental discharge, I took my suspension and never applied for a league salary. Its called integrity.

Journalist, I want you to investigate every location I resided in growing up. Find any incidents where I was ever accused of being a bully. You won’t, because it doesn’t exist. It’s not in my DNA. Never was. I was the only black kid in each of my elementary school classes from first grade to seventh grade in junior high and any instances where I was disciplined for fighting was in response to fellow students provoking common childhood schoolyard fights, or calling me a nigger or other derogatory racial names. I grew up in neighborhoods where blacks make up less than 1%. My first recollection of racism was in the first grade at Norwalk Christian elementary school in Norwalk, CA. A fellow student, XXXX if I can recall, called me a nigger on the playground. My response was swift and non-lethal. I struck him fast and hard with a punch an kick. He cried and reported it to a teacher. The teacher reported it to the principal. The principal swatted XXXX for using a derogatory word toward me. He then for some unknown reason swatted me for striking XXXX in response to him calling me a nigger. He stated as good Christians we are to turn the other cheek as Jesus did. Problem is, I’m not a fucking Christian and that old book, made of fiction and limited non-fiction, called the bible, never once stated Jesus was called a nigger. How dare you swat me for standing up for my rights for demanding that I be treated as an equal human being. That day I made a life decision that i will not tolerate racial derogatory terms spoken to me. Unfortunately I was swatted multiple times for the same exact reason up until junior high. Terminating me for telling the truth of a Caucasian officer kicking a mentally ill man is disgusting. Don’t ever call me a fucking bully. I want all journalist to utilize every source you have that specializes in collections for your reports. With the discovery and evidence available you will see the truth. Unfortunately, I will not be alive to see my name cleared. That’s what this is about, my name. A man is nothing without his name. Below is a list of locations where I resided from childhood to adulthood.

During the BOR an officer named, Sgt. XXXX, from Los Angeles Port Police testified on behalf of the LAPD. XXXX stated for the BOR that he arrived at the location of the UOF shortly before I cuffed the suspect. He also stated that he assisted in cuffing the suspect and that’s old the BOR he told me to fix my tie. All of those statements were LIES!!! XXXX, you arrived at the UOF location up to 30 seconds after I had cuffed Mr.XXXX. All you did was help me lift the suspect to his feet as it was difficult for me to do by myself because of his heavy weight. You did not tell me to fix my tie as the BOR members and everyone else in the room know you lied because the photographic evidence from the UOF scene where XXXX’s injuries were photographed clearly shows me wearing a class B uniform on that day. A class B uniform is a short sleeved uniform blouse. A short sleeved uniform blouse for the LAPD does not have a tie included. This is not Super Troopers uniform, you jackass. Why did you feel the need to embellish and lie about your involvement in the UOF? Are you ashamed that you could not get hired on by any other department other than port police? Do you have delusions of grandeur? What you did was perjury, exactly what XXXX did when she stated she did not kick XXXX.

What they failed to mention in the BOR was XXXX own use of force history during her career on the LAPD. She has admitted that she has a lengthy use of force record and has been flagged several times by risk management. She has a very well known nickname, Chupacabra, which she was very proud to flaunt around the division. She found it very funny and entertaining to draw blood from suspects and arrestees. At one point she even intentionally ripped the flesh off the arm of a woman we had arrested for battery (sprayed her neighbor with a garden water hose). Knowing the woman had thin elastic skin, she performed and Indian burn to the woman’s arm after cuffing her. That woman was in her mid-70s, a mother and grandmother, and was angry at her tenants who failed to pay rent on time. Something I can completely understand and I am sure many have wanted to do toward tenants who do not pay their rent. XXXX was also demoted from a senior lead officer rank/position for performance issues. During my two months of working patrol with XXXX, I found her as a woman who was very angry that she had been pulled from patrol for a short time because of a domestic violence report made by Long Beach Police Department because of an incident involving her active LAPD officer boyfriend, XXXX, and herself. XXXX is the same officer investigated for witness tampering. She also was visibly angry on a daily basis that she was going to have to file for bankruptcy because her ex-husband, a former LAPD officer and not XXXX, who had left the department, state, and was nowhere to be found had left her with a tax bill and debt that she was unable to pay because of a lack of financial means. XXXX, you are a POS and you lied right to the BOR panel when XXXX asked you if you kicked XXXX. You destroyed my life and name because of your actions. Time is up. The time is now to confess to Chief Beck.

I ask that all journalist investigating this story submit request for FOIA with the LAPD to gain access to the BOR transcripts which occurred from 10/08 to 2/09. There, you will see that a video was played for the BOR members of Mr. XXXX who suffers from Schizophrenia and Dementia stating that he was kicked by a female officer. That video evidence supports my claim that XXXX kicked him twice in the upper body and once in the face. I would like all journalist to also request copies of all reports that I had written while employed by LAPD. Whether in the academy, or during my 3 years as a police officer. There are DR#’s attached to each report (investigative report) that I have ever written so they all exist. A FOIA request will most likely be needed to access these at Parker center or at the Personnel/Records. Judge my writin/grammar skills for yourself. The department attempted to paint me as an officer who could not write reports. Even though Sgt. XXXX a training officer who trained me stated for the BOR panel that there was nothing wrong with my report writing and that I was better than all rookie/probationer officers he has ever trained. Officer XXXX stated the same but refused to testify as he did not want to “get involved” with the BOR’s. Contact Sgt. XXXX ,(now a Captain at Lompoc PD), Sgt. XXXX, and Sgt. XXXX. All will state that my report writing was impeccable. I will tell you this, I always type my reports because I have messy handwriting/penmanship. I never had a single kickback/redlined report at Southwest division and Sgt. XXXX and Sgt. XXXX can testify to that. I never received an UNSATISFACTORY on any day or week. The same can be said within the U.S. Naval Reserves. All commanders will state that my report writing was always clear, concise, and impeccable. Even search my AAR (after action reports),chits, Memorandum’s, IIR’s (Intelligence Information Reports) which were written in the Navy. All were pristine.
I had worked patrol at LAPD’s Harbor Division from 2/06 until 7/06 when I was involuntarily recalled back to active duty (US Navy) for a 12 month mobilization/deployment to Centcom in support of OIF/OEF. I returned back to LAPD’s Harbor division on 7/07 and immediately returned to patrol. I worked at Harbor division until 11/07 where I then transferred to Southwest Division. I worked At Southwest division until 6/25/08 when I was relieved of duty.
I have exhausted all available means at obtaining my name back. I have attempted all legal court efforts within appeals at the Superior Courts and California Appellate courts. This is my last resort. The LAPD has suppressed the truth and it has now lead to deadly consequences. The LAPD’s actions have cost me my law enforcement career that began on 2/7/05 and ended on 1/2/09. They cost me my Naval career which started on 4/02 and ends on 2/13. I had a TS/SCI clearance(Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information clearance) up until shortly after my termination with LAPD. This is the highest clearance a service member can attain other than a Yankee White TS/SCI which is only granted for those working with and around the President/Vice President of the United States. I lost my position as a Commanding Officer of a Naval Security Forces reserve unit at NAS Fallon because of the LAPD. I’ve lost a relationship with my mother and sister because of the LAPD. I’ve lost a relationship with close friends because of the LAPD. In essence, I’ve lost everything because the LAPD took my name and new I was INNOCENT!!! XXXX, XXXX, XXXX , and XXXX all new I was innocent but decided to terminate me so they could continue Ofcr. XXXX. I know about the meeting between all of you where XXXX attorney, XXXX, confessed that she kicked XXXX (excessive force). Your day has come.
I’m not an aspiring rapper, I’m not a gang member, I’m not a dope dealer, I don’t have multiple babies momma’s. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didn’t need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It’s in my DNA.

Luckily I don’t have to live everyday like most of you. Concerned if the misconduct you were apart of is going to be discovered. Looking over your shoulder, scurrying at every phone call from internal affairs or from the Captains office wondering if that is the day PSB comes after you for the suspects you struck when they were cuffed months/years ago or that $500 you pocketed from the narcotics dealer, or when the other guys on your watch beat a transient nearly to death and you never reported the UOF to the supervisor. No, I don’t have that concern, I stood up for what was right but unfortunately have dealt with the reprocussions of doing the right thing and now losing my name and everything I ever stood for. You fuckers knew XXXX was guilty of kicking (excessive force) XXXX and you did nothing but get rid of what you saw as the problem, the whistleblower. XXXX himself stated on video tape ( provided for the BOR and in transcripts) he was kicked and even his father stated that his son said he was kicked by XXXX when he was released from custody. The video was played for the entire BOR to hear. You’re going to see what a whistleblower can do when you take everything from him especially his NAME!!!

Look what you did to Sgt. XXXX (now lieutenant) when he exposed the truth of your lying, racism, and PSB cover-ups to frame and convict an innocent man. You can not police yourselves and the consent decree was unsuccessful. Sgt. XXXX, I met you on the range several times as a recruit and as an officer. You’re a good man and I saw it in your eyes an actions.

Self Preservation is no longer important to me. I do not fear death as I died long ago on 1/2/09. I was told by my mother that sometimes bad things happen to good people. I refuse to accept that.

From 2/05 to 1/09 I saw some of the most vile things humans can inflict on others as a police officer in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the streets of LA. It was in the confounds of LAPD police stations and shops (cruisers). The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it’s the police officers.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. How ironic that you utilize a fixed glass structure as your command HQ. You use as a luminous building to symbolize that you are transparent, have nothing to hide, or suppress when in essence, concealing, omitting, and obscuring is your forte.

Chief Beck, this is when you need to have that come to Jesus talk with Sgt. XXXX and everyone else who was involved in the conspiracy to have me terminated for doing the right thing. you also need to speak with her attorney, Rico, and his conversation with the BOR members and her confession of guilt in kicking Mr. XXXX. I’ll be waiting for a PUBLIC response at a press conference. When the truth comes out, the killing stops.

Why didn’t you charge me with filing a false police report when I came forward stating that XXXX kicked Mr. XXXX? You file criminal charges against every other officer who is accused and terminated for filing a false police report. You didn’t because you knew I was innocent and a criminal court would find me innocent and expose your department for suppressing the truth and retaliation, that’s why.

The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to stop, nor do i want it. I want my name back, period. There is no negotiation. I am not the state department who states they do not negotiate with terrorist, because anybody with a Secret or TS/SCI has seen IIR’s on SIPR and knows that the US state department always negotiates by using CF countries or independent sovereign/neutral country to mediate and compromising.

This department has not changed from the Daryl Gates and Mark Fuhrman days. Those officers are still employed and have all promoted to Command staff and supervisory positions. I will correct this error. Are you aware that an officer (a rookie/probationer at the time) seen on the Rodney King videotape striking Mr. King multiple times with a baton on 3/3/91 is still employed by the LAPD and is now a Captain on the police department? Captain XXXX is now the commanding officer of a LAPD police station (West LA division). As a commanding officer, he is now responsible for over 200 officers. Do you trust him to enforce department policy and investigate use of force investigations on arrestees by his officers? Are you aware XXXX has since promoted to Sergeant after kicking Mr. XXXX in the face. Oh, you Violated a citizens civil rights? We will promote you. Same as LAPD did with the officers from Metro involved in the May Day melee at MacArthur Park. They promoted them to Sergeant (a supervisor role).

No one is saying you can’t be prejudiced or a bigot. We are all human and hold prejudices. If you state that you don’t have prejudices, your lying! But, when you act on it and victimize innocent citizens and fellow innocen officers, than that is a concern.

For you officers who do the job in the name of JUSTICE, those of you who lost honest officers to this event, look at the name of those on the BOR and the investigating officers from PSB and XXXX and ask them, how come you couldn’t tell the truth? Why did you terminate an honest officer and cover for a dishonest officer who victimized a mentally ill citizen.

Sometimes humans feel a need to prove they are the dominant race of a species and they inadvertently take kindness for weakness from another individual. You chose wrong.

Terminating officers because they expose a culture of lying, racism (from the academy), and excessive use of force will immediately change. PSB can not police their own and that has been proven. The blue line will forever be severed and a cultural change will be implanted. You have awoken a sleeping giant.

I am here to change and make policy. The culture of LAPD versus the community and honest/good officers needs to and will change. I am here to correct and calibrate your morale compasses to true north.

Those Caucasian officers who join South Bureau divisions (77th,SW,SE, an Harbor) with the sole intent to victimize minorities who are uneducated, and unaware of criminal law, civil law, and civil rights. You prefer the South bureau because a use of force/deadly force is likely and the individual you use UOF on will likely not report it. You are a high value target.

Those Black officers in supervisory ranks and pay grades who stay in south bureau (even though you live in the valley or OC) for the sole intent of getting retribution toward subordinate caucasians officers for the pain and hostile work environment their elders inflicted on you as probationers (P-1′s) and novice P-2’s. You are a high value target. You perpetuated the cycle of racism in the department as well. You breed a new generation of bigoted caucasian officer when you belittle them and treat them unfairly.

Those Hispanic officers who victimize their own ethnicity because they are new immigrants to this country and are unaware of their civil rights. You call them wetbacks to their face and demean them in front of fellow officers of different ethnicities so that you will receive some sort of acceptance from your colleagues. I’m not impressed. Most likely, your parents or grandparents were immigrants at one time, but you have forgotten that. You are a high value target.

Those lesbian officers in supervising positions who go to work, day in day out, with the sole intent of attempting to prove your misandrist authority (not feminism) to degrade male officers. You are a high value target.
Those Asian officers who stand by and observe everything I previously mentioned other officers participate in on a daily basis but you say nothing, stand for nothing and protect nothing. Why? Because of your usual saying, ” I……don’t like conflict”. You are a high value target as well.

Those of you who “go along to get along” have no backbone and destroy the foundation of courage. You are the enablers of those who are guilty of misconduct. You are just as guilty as those who break the code of ethics and oath you swore.

Citizens/non-combatants, do not render medical aid to downed officers/enemy combatants. They would not do the same for you. They will let you bleed out just so they can brag to other officers that they had a 187 caper the other day and can’t wait to accrue the overtime in future court subpoenas. As they always say, “that’s the paramedics job…not mine”. Let the balance of loss of life take place. Sometimes a reset needs to occur.
It is endless the amount of times per week officers arrest an individual, label him a suspect-arrestee-defendant and then before arraignment or trial realize that he is innocent based on evidence. You know what they say when they realize an innocent man just had his life turned upside down?. “I guess he should have stayed at home that day he was discovered walking down the street and matching the suspects description. Oh well, he appeared to be a dirtbag anyways”. Meanwhile the falsely accused is left to pick up his life, get a new, family, friends, and sense of self worth.
Don’t honor these fallen officers/dirtbags. When your family members die, they just see you as extra overtime at a crime scene and at a perimeter. Why would you value their lives when they clearly don’t value yours or your family members lives? I’ve heard many officers who state they see dead victims as ATV’s, Waverunners, RV’s and new clothes for their kids. Why would you shed a tear for them when they in return crack a smile for your loss because of the impending extra money they will receive in their next paycheck for sitting at your loved ones crime scene of 6 hours because of the overtime they will accrue. They take photos of your loved ones recently deceased bodies with their cellphones and play a game of who has the most graphic dead body of the night with officers from other divisions. This isn’t just the 20 something year old officers, this is the 50 year old officers with significant time on the job as well who participate.

You allow an officer, XXXX, to attempt to hack into my credit union account and still remain on the job even when Det. XXXX shows the evidence that the IP address (provided by LAPFCU) that attempted to hack into my account and change my username and password leads directly to her residence. You even allow this visibly disgusting looking officer to stay on the job when she perjures (lies) in court (Clark County Family Court) to the judge’s face and denies hacking into my personal credit union online account when I attempted to get my restraint order extended. Det. XXXX provided the evidence and you still do nothing.

How do you know when a police officer is lying??? When he begins his sentence with, “based on my experience and training”.

No one grows up and wants to be a cop killer. It was against everything I’ve ever was. As a young police explorer I found my calling in life. But, As a young police officer I found that the violent suspects on the street are not the only people you have to watch. It is the officer who was hired on to the department (pre-2000) before polygraphs were standard for all new hires and a substantial vetting in a backround investigation.

To those children of the officers who are eradicated, your parent was not the individual you thought they were. As you get older,you will see the evidence that your parent was a tyrant who loss their ethos and instead followed the path of moral corruptness. They conspired to hide and suppress the truth of misconduct on others behalf’s. Your parent will have a name and plaque on the fallen officers memorial in D.C. But, In all honesty, your parents name will be a reminder to other officers to maintain the oath they swore and to stay along the shoreline that has guided them from childhood to that of a local, state, or federal law enforcement officer.

Your lack of ethics and conspiring to wrong a just individual are over. Suppressing the truth will leave to deadly consequences for you and your family. There will be an element of surprise where you work, live, eat, and sleep. I will utilize ISR at your home, workplace, and all locations in between. I will utilize OSINT to discover your residences, spouses workplaces, and children’s schools. IMINT to coordinate and plan attacks on your fixed locations. Its amazing whats on NIPR. HUMINT will be utilized to collect personal schedules of targets. I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I’m terminating yours. XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, and BOR members Look your wives/husbands and surviving children directly in the face and tell them the truth as to why your children are dead.

Never allow a LAPPL union attorney to be a retired LAPD Captain,(XXXX). He doesn’t work for you, your interest, or your name. He works for the department, period. His job is to protect the department from civil lawsuits being filed and their best interest which is the almighty dollar. His loyalty is to the department, not his client. Even when he knowingly knows your innocent and the BOR also knows your innocent after XXXX stated on videotape that he was kicked and XXXX attorney confessed to the BOR off the record that she kicked XXXX.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants-TJ. This quote is not directed toward the US government which I fully support 100%. This is toward the LAPD who can not monitor itself. The consent decree should not have been lifted, ever.

I know your TTP’s, (techniques, tactics, and procedures). Any threat assessments you generate will be useless. This is simple, I know your TTP’s and PPR’s. I will mitigate any of your attempts at preservation. ORM is my friend. I will mitigate all risks, threats and hazards. I assure you that Incident Command Posts will be target rich environments. KMA-367 license plate frames are great target indicators and make target selection even easier.

I will conduct DA operations to destroy, exploit and seize designated targets. If unsuccessful or unable to meet objectives in these initial small-scale offensive actions, I will reassess my BDA and re-attack until objectives are met. I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing. Just alike AAF’s, ACM’s, and AIF’s, you can not prevail against an enemy combatant who has no fear of death. An enemy who embraces death is a lose, lose situation for their enemy combatants.

Hopefully you analyst have done your homework. You are aware that I have always been the top shot, highest score, an expert in rifle qualifications in every unit I’ve been in. I will utilize every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordnance, and survival training I’ve been given.

Do you know why we are unsuccessful in asymmetrical and guerrilla warfare in CENTCOM theatre of operations? I’ll tell you. It’s not the inefficiency of our combatant commanders, planning, readiness or training of troops. Much like the Vietnam war, ACM, AAF, foreign fighters, Jihadist, and JAM have nothing to lose. They embrace death as it is a way of life. I simply don’t fear it. I am the walking exigent circumstance you created.

The Violence of action will be HIGH. I am the reason TAC alert was established. I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty. ISR is my strength and your weakness. You will now live the life of the prey. Your RD’s and homes away from work will be my AO and battle space. I will utilize every tool within INT collections that I learned from NMITC in Dam Neck. You have misjudged a sleeping giant. There is no conventional threat assessment for me. JAM, New Ba’ath party, 1920 rev BGE, ACM, AAF, AQAP, AQIM and AQIZ have nothing on me. Do not deploy airships or gunships. SA-7 Manpads will be waiting. As you know I also own Barrett .50′s so your APC are defunct and futile.

You better have all your officers radio/phone muster (code 1) on or off duty every hour, on the hour. Do not attempt to shadow or conduct any type of ISR on me. I have the inventory listing of all UC vehicles at Piper Tech and the home addresses of any INT analyst at JRIC and detachment locations. My POA is always POI and always true. This will be a war of attrition and a Pyrrhic and Camdean Victory for myself. You may have the resources and manpower but you are reactive and predictable in your op plans and TTP’s. I have the strength and benefits of being unpredictable, unconventional, and unforgiving. Do not waste your time with briefs and tabletops.

The animated dream sequence, which shows a man slumbering as a Muzak-style version of “We Are the World” plays, starts out as an apparent tribute to the Korean space program. A rocket launches, a cartoonish ship orbits the Earth and the nation rejoices.

But then the focus shifts to the United States. Soon missiles are raining down on New York, and high-rises are ablaze.

The UK Guardian translated the Korean-language caption accompanying the firestorm:

“Somewhere in the United States, black clouds of smoke are billowing. It seems that the nest of wickedness is ablaze.”

It’s all pretty comical. Or would be if North Korea weren’t about to detonate a real nuclear device.

Don’t get a flu shot, warns conservative talk show host Michael Savage, because you just can’t trust the government.

“Did Harry Reid get a flu shot?” the Larkspur, Calif., resident asked in a recent broadcast. “Did Barack Obama take a flu shot? Did Barack Obama’s lovely family take a flu shot? Did Joe Biden take a flu shot?

“Which of the mandarins took a flu shot?”

So far, there’s been no response from the mandarins. Very suspicious. If the CDC is going to urge Americans to get vaccinated, the White House could at least say whether Sasha and Malia got their shots.

The flu vaccine contains formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, Savage says. Totally true. Getting a flu shot might not be the same as eating FEMA trailer insulation, but you are having formaldehyde injected into your body.

Same with thimerosal, a mercury-laced organic compound used as a preservative in some flu shots. Thimerosal has been linked by some to autism.

Now the pro-flu shot lobby will tell you that the negligible quantities of formaldehyde and thimerosal in the vaccine are harmless, even for young children.

It will remind you that side effects are very rare, that you can’t get the flu from getting vaccinated and that the new “combined” shots, which protect against both H1N1 and seasonal flu, are made the same way as the old flu shots.

But, says Dr. Savage (Did you know he’s a doctor? Not a medical doctor, but still), suppose you do get a shot and years pass “and you get ALS or Alzheimer’s disease or MS, or you watch your kid develop seizures, or your kid becomes autistic, God forbid, what are you going to say?”

You’ll say, “I shouldn’t have gotten that flu shot back in 2013,” that’s what! Unless you get Alzheimer’s.

So listen to Dr. Savage and refuse to submit to the pro-flu shot lobby’s disease-eradicating agenda. After all, when was the last time any government-recommended vaccine containing formaldehyde did any good?

That’s the question everyone is asking about the horrific photo on Tuesday’s New York Post cover showing a man clinging to the wall of a subway track as a train approached.

The Post, tasteful as ever, ran the sensational headline “DOOMED/Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die” with the picture.

The man, Ki-Suk Han, reportedly had been pushed onto the tracks by an assailant at Manhattan’s 49th St. subway station. He tried to climb out, but was hit by the train and tossed “like a rag doll.” He died soon after.

New York Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbas, who was on the platform at the time, didn’t try to assist Han, but he did have time to squeeze off at least two shots. He says he tried to warn the train operator by firing his flash.

But would a few flash bursts convey the danger to the driver? Waving one’s arms would seem to be more effective.

The photo looks to be a wide-angle shot, meaning that the man was actually closer to the photographer than it appears. The train is closer as well, but it seems likely that he could have reached the man before the train.

So why didn’t he? Here are a few possible explanations:

He was afraid of being pulled onto the tracks. Self-preservation is a legitimate concern, if not a very noble one in this case.

A day before the Raiders special teams revealed their new speciality – long snapping the ball into the turf – the Washington Redkins were having their own kicking-game crisis.

Their long snapper, Nick Sundberg, got his arm caught between a helmet and a facemask during a punt that was blocked by the Saints and returned for a touchdown. Sundberg knew it was broken – he had had fractured the same bone in high school – and doctors on the sidelines urged him to get an X-ray. Instead, he simply asked for a painkiller.

And then went back onto the field.

He snapped the ball four times for punts, twice for field goals and twice for extra points in the second half of Washington’s 40-32 win over New Orleans. Not once did he make his punter field a grounder on two or three hops – which is probably what Shane Lechler dreamt about last night in a cold sweat.

Sundberg’s pain must have been excrutiating.

“It was terrible, but I felt like I really didn’t have another option,” he said.

Where does Sundberg gets his off-the-charts pain threshold? Well, it might have something to do with his upbringing. Unlike most children, he regularly volunteered to be shocked with a Taser.

“First time I ever did it, I was 9. It was Bring-Your-Kid-to-Work day. My mom’s coworkers were messing with me and said, ‘You gonna take a hit today?’ And I said ‘Yeah!’ just trying to be cool or whatever, and my mom said, ‘Yeah, do it.’ I was like, ‘What?’ the only reason why I said yeah was because I was thinking she wasn’t going to let me do it. Sure enough, she did it.

“They got me twice that day. It hurts. Every time they come out with a new one, I’ve tried it. Except for this last one because I haven’t been around there a lot. But it hurts a lot. It completely incapacitates you. Usually it’s a five-second run time. All your muscles lock up. When we did it, we tried to do it as safely as possible. We’d have two guys stand there so you don’t face-plant. But the second it’s off, it’s off, and you’re like, ‘What did I just do?’ there’s no pain or anything. That’s why I was able to keep going back to it over and over again.”

Despite his ironman performance Sunday, Sundberg now must wear a bulky cast and will be out of commission for several weeks. The Redskins reportedly signed former Indianapolis Colts veteran Justin Snow as a temporary replacement.

No word yet on whether the Raiders will replace backup snapper Travis “I’m just a linebacker” Goethel, who was clearly not ready to fill in for injured starter Jon Condo.

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Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:53:28 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/?p=11914You can tell it’s almost football season because the Giants’ Pablo Sandoval and Brandon Crawford were practicing the tip drill in Tuesday night’s game against the Astros.

With two outs in the first inning, Houston catcher Jason Castro hit a foul pop that was bobbled like a hot potato and swatted high into the air by Sandoval. Johnny-on-the-spot Crawford raced over and with a flying leap, scooped the ball just before it hit the grass.

But that’s exactly what Brazilian soccer superstar Ronaldinho did at a press conference for his new club in Brazil, according to Yahoo. When Coke’s top brass in Atlanta found out, they were not amused. They demanded the sponsorship be revoked immediately, a Sao Paulo newspaper reported.

Apparently, Pepsi is one of the sponsors of Atletico Mineiro, Ronaldinho’s new team. The gaffe could cost him $1.57 million over the course of the contract.

Poor, thirsty Ronaldinho. If only a glass of ice water had been available!

Nos. 12 at Augusta and 17 at TPC Sawgrass can make even scratch golfers tremble, but for sheer terror, nothing touches the 15th hole at Lake Ashton Golf and Country Club in Lake Wales, Fla.

Just ask Albert Miller.

Miller was playing a four-ball tournament at Lake Ashton when he hooked a shot into a pond that borders the 15th green. What happened next, recounted in The Ledger of Lakeland, Fla., could make lesser men swear off golf for good.

The water in the hazard is clear – the course uses it for irrigation – so the 75-year-old went to the edge with a retriever tool and plucked two balls that other golfers had lost.

That’s when an alligator plucked him.

A 190-pound, 9-foot-long beast rose out of the water, clamped down on his left knee and pulled him into the pond.

Given that the electorate is largely pro-dog, Democrats are eager to remind voters this fall about Mitt Romney’s innovative canine transportation methods of the 1980s.

If you recall, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate used to put the family Irish setter Seamus in a crate attached the roof of his car while going on vacations. “Kinder” than the kennel, Ann Romney says.

But it’s a dog-story-eat-dog-story world. So when the Republicans were reminded by the Daily Caller of a quote from Barack Obama’s own book, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” a Twitter feeding frenzy ensued.

In the passage, Obama is recalling meals he had in Indonesia, where he lived between the ages of 6 and 10:

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

It didn’t take long for Romney strategist Eric Fehrstrom to turn tables on Obama strategist David Axelrod with a zinging retweet (above) of an earlier Axelrod message referring to Seamus.

Meanwhile, the hashtag #ObamaDogRecipes has gone viral with wisecracks. Here are a few examples of the canine cuisine wit:

Nothing like a good dog story from the ’60s or ’80s to take your mind off of a $15 trillion deficit that neither candidate seems serious about denting.